Month: August 2017

LAGOS, Nigeria, Aug. 29, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — An undergraduate of the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State went home N500,000 richer Monday, August 28, 2017, following his win in one of the games on the Western Lotto platform and pledged to continue to play for more winnings. A photo accompanying this […]

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HARARE, At least 1.8 million Zimbabwean households will get maize and small grains seeds for planting in the 2017/18 summer crop season under the Presidential Inputs Scheme, says Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph ...

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HARARE, At least 1.8 million Zimbabwean households will get maize and small grains seeds for planting in the 2017/18 summer crop season under the Presidential Inputs Scheme, says Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph ...

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HARARE, A Chinese property company, R&F, has agreed to inject up to 2.0 billion US dollars to revive the defunct Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZiscoSteel), with first production of stainless steel expected in 18 months, says Zimbabwe's Industry and Commerce Minister, Mike Bimha.

R&F is a multi-billion dollar company with interests in various areas, including real estate, tourism, mining and construction in different countries.

ZiscoSteel had been sold to Indian firm Essar Africa Holdings in 2011, but after delays in consummating the deal, Essar pulled out as it had committed the funds it had earmarked for Zisco elsewhere. The deal, worth an estimated 750 million USD, was stalled by squabbles over mineral rights and other technicalities.

Bimha said Monday the new deal, to be funded through R&F's investment arm based in Hong Kong, would be implemented in three phases, culminating in the production of stainless steel.

A month ago I went to China, representing the government, to sign the agreement and therefore what we are now doing is looking into how best to implement this project, he said. We we are looking at an initial injection of over 1/0 billion USD and it will probably come to 2.0 billion when we proceed, but it is not a small project, it is a huge project.

Bimha, who was speaking to the media after R&F founder and president Zhang Li paid a courtesy call on President Robert Mugabe at State House here, said the deal was negotiated over the past six months, while the Chinese engineers who did due diligence on the project concluded that only about 15 to 20 per cent of the equipment at the plant was still usable.

It (the deal) is configured in a way that we would want the investors to focus more on steel making and we will hive off some of the subsidiaries of Zisco which will allow other players to participate. You have subsidiaries like Lancashire Steel, like the coke ovens and a number of similar subsidiaries; these will be hived off so that the new company can concentrate more on steel-making, he said.

There is also a lot of work to be done in terms of ensuring that we finalise on the implementation matrix, there is also a lot of work to be done in terms of getting a number of ministries and government departments to make their contributions in making sure that this project becomes a success.

ZiscoSteel, once the biggest integrated steel works in Africa, folded up in 2008 after experiencing serious viability problems.

HARARE, A Chinese property company, R&F, has agreed to inject up to 2.0 billion US dollars to revive the defunct Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZiscoSteel), with first production of stainless steel expected in 18 months, says Zimbabwe's Industry and Commerce Minister, Mike Bimha.

R&F is a multi-billion dollar company with interests in various areas, including real estate, tourism, mining and construction in different countries.

ZiscoSteel had been sold to Indian firm Essar Africa Holdings in 2011, but after delays in consummating the deal, Essar pulled out as it had committed the funds it had earmarked for Zisco elsewhere. The deal, worth an estimated 750 million USD, was stalled by squabbles over mineral rights and other technicalities.

Bimha said Monday the new deal, to be funded through R&F's investment arm based in Hong Kong, would be implemented in three phases, culminating in the production of stainless steel.

A month ago I went to China, representing the government, to sign the agreement and therefore what we are now doing is looking into how best to implement this project, he said. We we are looking at an initial injection of over 1/0 billion USD and it will probably come to 2.0 billion when we proceed, but it is not a small project, it is a huge project.

Bimha, who was speaking to the media after R&F founder and president Zhang Li paid a courtesy call on President Robert Mugabe at State House here, said the deal was negotiated over the past six months, while the Chinese engineers who did due diligence on the project concluded that only about 15 to 20 per cent of the equipment at the plant was still usable.

It (the deal) is configured in a way that we would want the investors to focus more on steel making and we will hive off some of the subsidiaries of Zisco which will allow other players to participate. You have subsidiaries like Lancashire Steel, like the coke ovens and a number of similar subsidiaries; these will be hived off so that the new company can concentrate more on steel-making, he said.

There is also a lot of work to be done in terms of ensuring that we finalise on the implementation matrix, there is also a lot of work to be done in terms of getting a number of ministries and government departments to make their contributions in making sure that this project becomes a success.

ZiscoSteel, once the biggest integrated steel works in Africa, folded up in 2008 after experiencing serious viability problems.